I started running seriously on July 16, 2021, during the Covid lockdown. I had graduated, and I could no longer walk or cycle to the lab daily. And I was working full-time and very long sessions on my six-month-old startup, and these long programming sessions were taking a toll on my health. I needed a …
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Last December, I wrote a short piece for the Times of India (ToI) in a column called "Tech I’d Love to See". It took a while before the article was printed. On January 25, 2021, someone I know sent me a message on LinkedIn about it. I couldn’t find it online or with the search …
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Install SoX. Relevant documentation (search for vad). Let’s say your vice file is a.wav. $ play ~/Downloads/a.wav vad norm /home/dilawars/Downloads/a.wav: File Size: 52.3k Bit Rate: 328k Encoding: Signed PCM Channels: 1 @ 16-bit Samplerate: 20500Hz Replaygain: off Duration: 00:00:01.27 In:100% 00:00:01.27 [00:00:00.00] Out:20.0k [ | ] Hd:0.0 Clip:0 Done. It is decent! You can play …